On the opposite side of the subdimensional tower is the high-seat meeting space of the Turtle Dove Alliance. Twenty-six long-backed chairs are arranged at equal intervals around a circular table.
All the surviving World Trees on the Mysterious Land were present and gathered together. If someone had a Leica and sent a photo as a souvenir, it would be a legendary scene for future generations to say the least.
However, the gathering of the World Trees was not to reminisce about the past, but to prepare for the upcoming transformation plan of the Lost Land. There was some dispute over the details and various filings during the process. The point of conflict was the persistence of the newly added friend, Gaius.
To put it bluntly, the descendants of the World Tree are used to attack other places instead of immovable plants. With the defense strength of the World Tree itself, it is almost impossible to attack it as long as it is not suppressed by other World Trees. But
As long as it is suppressed, the dependents will be the last line of defense for World Tree.
The powerful empires in history were able to burn down the World Tree because their collections contained sacred objects left behind by other World Trees, making it possible to fight against them.
During the defensive battle, the main force must be the World Tree, and the dependent races are just for miscellaneous purposes. Only when the battle extends beyond the realm of the World Tree is the time for the dependents to show their full potential.
After long-term cooperation, the World Trees chose elves as their dependents because the elves have excellent physical qualities in all aspects, as well as magic perception capabilities, and their intelligence is also not bad. The overall evaluation is among all the Homo sapiens races.
The outstanding races that can be ranked at the forefront, or even ranked first, have established a symbiotic relationship with the World Tree after the big waves dug out the sand.
But Gaius, who had been treated cruelly by the elves, was unwilling to trust this group anymore. Not only did he secretly summon the demons, but he also killed all the elves who came to his domain and belonged to the Kingdom of Belzins. The two sides came together
At this point, it is really difficult to imagine that other World Trees could reconcile with the Elf Kingdom. Of course, Lin had no intention of persuading him to do so.
Of course, the race originally chosen by Gaius as a familiar, the demons, cannot be accepted by the trees. Regardless of the alignment or issues of good and evil, do demons understand what it means to cooperate obediently? How can we ensure that elves and demons are cooperating?
Why don't you start fighting yourself first?
Gaius did not continue to persist. In other words, even if he wanted to persist, there was nowhere to persist now that all the demons had been killed. So he made a decision that puzzled all the world trees. He would not protect him.
And taking in any Familia. This is equivalent to giving up the only offensive ability of the World Tree. After being suppressed by the power of other trees, Gaius will be defenseless and at the mercy of others.
When Lin discussed this decision with Gaius alone, he did not express his opinion, but only respected the other party's ideas. But when it came to the high-level meeting, the other World Trees all opposed it.
The main force of the opposition was of course McKinning, who loved to sing the opposite. He said: "You should know that we have an agreement to protect each other. If either party is attacked, you will send troops to help. But if you don't have any troops in your hands, it means that you accept our
Waiting for protection without paying any price. This is not the attitude that equal collaborators should have."
Although what McKinen said seems a bit pretentious, it is a correct statement. The twenty-five World Trees have strong and weak powers. It is inevitable that the strong will pay more and the weak will pay less. But if you are like Gaius,
You don’t have to pay anything and just sit back and enjoy the results. If things go on like this, it will easily lead to the beginning of disputes, which is not a good thing.
However, for matters of this level, Lin and Gaius had already discussed the words. World Tree, who was incarnated in the image of a rickety old man, said: "Gentlemen, although I cannot provide military strength. But in addition to military strength, I can't provide you with anything."
, I can provide it. Do you think this price is enough?"
"Except for military strength." McKinen asked doubtfully, "Anything can be done?"
"Do you want the foundation for advancement? Okay, come and get it yourself. Anyway, don't put disgusting things like elves in front of me. Everything else can be discussed." Gaius did not hide his likes and dislikes
.It seems that this dear friend was indeed disgusted by the elves in the past.
At this time, Lin also helped this new partner and said: "I know that your Majesty will hope that every participant in the plan can play the same value. But there is no fairness in things in this world. You are so powerful.
There are weaknesses. If everyone's contributions are unified, whether it is labor, military strength or other project standards, will it become a situation where the strong have it too easy and the weak cannot do it? What if the strong pay more and the weak pay less?
How can it represent that you are all on an equal footing? If you all pay less, then why should we do the work? Why don’t we all pack up and disperse, and go back to wash and sleep. It will save you trouble and I will save trouble."
What someone said was neither light nor serious. Although the World Trees are plants, they do not understand people's hearts or understand the truth, they just ignore it sometimes. Lin raised it here, which certainly aroused their thinking.
Of course, the words are not over yet. Lin continued: "Besides, do you hope that when anyone still has some energy left, they should contribute their energy without reservation?"
"What's wrong with this, human being?" Yggdrasil asked in confusion.
"What's wrong is that when the one who has the spare power is you, are you willing to put all your efforts into the plan to transform the land? This requires completely giving up what you have done or are currently doing.
Work hard. Are you willing to be forced by other beings with the same status as yourself?"
"Human, you have many bad ideas. What do you think about this matter?" Yggdrasil asked to smooth things over.
"Is the so-called contribution just a rigid standard of the number of troops supported? I don't think so. In our plan, there are countless things that everyone has to do. In these things
It would be even more wrong to ignore it easily. So if you really care about this kind of thing, let me make a mathematical model. According to the types of all contributions, give parameters and upper and lower limits, and finally get something
Expectations of completion.”
Lin used whiteboard writing skills to show several simple economic models with annotations. Lin didn't even have the desire to explain things of this level. Instead, he talked about the precautions for constructing the model and how to use the model.
Finally, he said:
"I think this matter should be easy based on your Majesty's ability. Especially regarding the quantification of each task, I believe there will be no one who has a more say than the parties involved who actually run the matter.
And after getting this model, I believe you can calculate how the increase or decrease in each person's contribution will change our goals, and thus make the most appropriate choice."
"What is the most suitable choice, human beings?" Youshu asked.
"It's very simple. It's about respecting your majesty's wishes. Under this premise, what is the best expectation that can be obtained. Maybe this is still far from the best expectation that you can get if you try your best. But there is a gap.
Is the gap acceptable to you? If not, how to adjust it? Or do you have to sacrifice your own will, put all your efforts into the plan, and complete everything in the shortest possible time?
.”
"Human, have you ever thought that the reason why we are so urgent is that we hope to complete all our plans in your limited life. The life span of a human being is really too short. Especially now that you are among humans,
It’s not considered a young generation either. I don’t think the gods can tell when their destiny will end.”
Faced with Yggdrasil's straightforward words, Lin Wei could only smile bitterly, not knowing how to answer. In the end, he could only say awkwardly: "No one in this world is still running. To be honest, the land transformation plan is still running.
Even now, I don’t think my importance is as important as it was at the beginning. Moreover, the really troublesome part is all the preparation in the early stage; the waiting in the later stage is just waiting for the moment when things will come naturally. So without me, as long as
The foundation laid in the past is solid enough, and your majesties can complete all this on your own. Unless you don't intend to continue playing and give up on your own."
Regardless of whether the previous remarks about someone's life span were artificial or sincere, the World Trees did not intend to continue this topic. Instead, they began to discuss and deduce the mathematical model mentioned by a certain human magician. Of course Lin participated
in.
With the computing power of more than twenty World Trees, the model was quickly established. But whether it was correct or not, no one dared to make a conclusion.
However, the mathematical model constructed shows that the World Trees at the lower end of the list are all in a state of resource imbalance. The World Trees at the top of the list have a surplus.
This illustrates the phenomenon that the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. Because while the strong makes a lot of contributions, he also has the energy to do other things; while the weak not only digs into their family and capital, but even needs blood transfusions.
, can we catch up with the contribution of the strong.
At this time, as Gaius did, simply being a logistics staff and providing necessary resources and assistance would be a good help to those lower-ranked World Trees, allowing them to get more use.
The results may allow resources to be concentrated where they are more needed. As for those powerful people, such as the two ancient ones, of course they do not need Gaius's assistance.
For Gaius, his contribution in doing so was no less than those who sent troops to fight and kill.
The main reason is that after the four Elf Kingdoms have been solved, there is no longer a target worthy of their active attack on the World Tree. The next war will only be a defense battle for a certain World Tree in order to deal with the enemies from the human kingdom.
, or attacks from other Homo sapiens races.
Since the war may not be fought, the supplies or services that Gaius can provide are fixed. The opportunity cost between the two can be figured out by anyone who is not too savvy.
Therefore, the World Trees have agreed to Gaius' arrangement for them. The incident of hating the elves has come to an end.